{"id":1770,"date":"2014-04-03T07:32:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T11:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=1770"},"modified":"2014-04-11T07:36:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T11:36:46","slug":"the-bletchley-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=1770","title":{"rendered":"The Bletchley Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/372280696_640_converted.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Bletchley Park, Bletchley Circle\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/372280696_640_converted.jpg?resize=350%2C210\" width=\"350\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>Fans of the PBS program <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/program\/bletchley-circle\/\">The Bletchley Circle<\/a>\u2014I\u2019m one!\u2014who have been waiting for the return of the series, mark your calendars! The second season (which will consist of two, two-episode stories) begins Sunday night, April 13, after Masterpiece Theater. This smart series, harnesses the brain power of a group of women who worked as codebreakers at fabled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bletchleypark.org.uk\/content\/hist\/worldwartwo\/captridley.rhtm\">Bletchley Park<\/a> during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>In Season 1, the patronizing attitude of the males (husbands, police, etc.) toward these women who were thinking rings around them was delightful. Their skills in pattern recognition, especially, to analyze massive amounts of seemingly random data stood them in good stead. And, the show apparently, despite minor quibbles, reaches <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bletchleyparkresearch.co.uk\/2012\/09\/07\/the-bletchley-circle-review-did-the-writers-get-it-right\/\">standards of factual correctness<\/a> about Bletchley Park itself. (One can only imagine how Hollywood&#8217;s funhouse mirrors would have distorted reality.) 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